Twin Brothers Allegedly Injured on New Harry Potter Trip at Common Orlando

Two brothers are suing Common Orlando Resort for greater than $50,000 in damages, alleging they have been injured on Epic Universe’s new Harry Potter experience.

Twins Derrick and Erick Burrough, 45, filed separate lawsuits towards Common, claiming they have been injured on the Harry Potter and the Battle on the Ministry experience, in response to authorized paperwork obtained by PEOPLE on Tuesday, Feb. 24. The experience is in an elevator simulation with a 16-passenger car that strikes parkgoers up, down, ahead, backward and sideways all through the Ministry of Magic.

The Burroughs, who have been on the park on Christmas Day with their households, allege they have been on the experience when it malfunctioned and stopped abruptly. They have been “thrusted erratically” of their seats, inflicting them to undergo “vital” neck and again accidents.

PEOPLE reached out to Common Studios for remark.

They each declare within the swimsuit that on account of the accidents they’ve suffered, “lack of potential to steer and luxuriate in a traditional life. 

The Burrough brothers are searching for damages for the monetary repercussions: “expense of hospitalization, medical and nursing care and therapy; previous misplaced wages, lack of incomes energy, diminished incomes capability; lack of potential to steer and luxuriate in a traditional life; losses are everlasting or persevering with and plaintiff will undergo sooner or later.”

Moreover, the swimsuit states they’re searching for therapy for his or her accidents, that are “impacting their on a regular basis lives,”  their legal professional John Morgan mentioned in an announcement, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

They allegedly suffered “bodily and terminal damage, together with a everlasting damage; ache and struggling of each a bodily and psychological nature; incapacity, bodily impairment, disfigurement, psychological anguish, inconvenience; lack of capability for the enjoyment of life; aggravation of an current situation,” per the lawsuit.

Morgan instructed the Orlando Sentinel that the lawsuits have been filed to “maintain Common accountable for a security incident we allege was solely preventable.”

“Crucial job of a theme park is to maintain its company protected. As an alternative, Common allegedly operated a experience that had been stricken by repeated malfunctions, glitches and arduous stops because it opened,” Morgan mentioned.

The lawsuits allege Common was negligent in sustaining the experience “in a fairly protected situation” and “warn of any harmful circumstances about which it knew or ought to have recognized about.”

These claims be part of a listing of different lawsuits towards the corporate and the accidents parkgoers have sustained on Common Studios Hollywood’s Harry Potter experience, “Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.”

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In February 2025, 74-year-old Pamela Morrison was awarded $7.25 million in damages from Common Studios after struggling a backbone damage on the experience in September 2022.

Debra Biane, Gerald Scott Biane, Josh Taylorson and Sami-Joh Goldberg sued the amusement park, alleging they have been left stranded on the identical experience in April 2022. They declare they have been on the experience for over an hour and sustained accidents because of this.